A Group Portrait of the Lemon Creek All Stars Baseball Team; Lemon Creek, BC

DescriptionTitle ProperA Group Portrait of the Lemon Creek All Stars Baseball Team; Lemon Creek, BCDate(s) of material from this resource digitized1919General material designation

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Scope and content

An outdoor group portrait of four rows of men wearing sport uniforms, posing in front of a wooden shack. The men are wearing Asahi baseball uniforms and baseball caps. In the back row identified left to right is Ken Hashimoto, Roy Humi, Hank Kimura, and Yuki Uno. In the third row identified left to right is "Singy" Suefuji, Kiyoshi Suga, and Mike Inamoto. In the second row identified left to right is Herby Izumi and Geo Shishido. In the front row is Joe Koyanagi.

Name of creator

Kohei Saito was born around 1880 in Shizuoka prefecture. He came to Canada sometime before his marriage to Natsu Mochizuki in 1914 or 1915. They both arrived on the ship Canada Maru on October 16, 1915 which sailed from Yokohama to Victoria, BC. At that time Kohei was a returning Canadian, and had been in Japan for eight months at the address 130 Yodobashi machi, Toyo tama gun, Tokyo fu.

Immediate source of acquisition

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized in full.